The prejudices of superstition are superior to all others, and have the strongest influence on the human mind.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUThere are three species of government: republican, monarchical, and despotic.
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Liberty itself has appeared intolerable to those nations who have not been accustomed to enjoy it.
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The culminating point of administration is to know well how much power, great or small, we ought to use in all circumstances.
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An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.
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Never create by law what can be accomplished by morality.
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Honor is unknown in despotic states.
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In bodies moved, the motion is received, increased, diminished, or lost, according to the relations of the quantity of matter and velocity; each diversity is uniformity, each change is constancy.
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Europe is a state with several provinces
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This punishment of death is the remedy, as it were, of a sick society.
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The wickedness of mankind makes it necessary for the law to suppose them better than they really are.
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I suffer from the disease of writing books and being ashamed of them when they are finished.
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The laws do not take upon them to punish any other than overt acts.
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Ever since the invention of gunpowder.. I continually tremble lest men should, in the end, uncover some secret which would provide a short way of abolishing mankind, of annihilating peoples and nations in their entirety.
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If we only wanted to be happy, it would be easy; but we want to be happier than other people, and that is almost always difficult, since we think them happier than they are.
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Love of reading enables a man to exchange the weary hours, which come to every one, for hours of delight.
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The crime against nature will never make any great progress in society unless people are prompted to it by some particular custom.
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